Friday, May 29, 2015
People bonded with the product Mad Men was selling, but what were they falling for?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:28PM[SHARE]Patrick Dougherty's Stickwork is a remarkable piece of public art.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
The performers must be so deeply invested in what they are doing that we are caught up in the narrative as its cobwebs are brushed away.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:50PM[SHARE]"Yes, America might have been a nation of Christians, but that was different from being formally a Christian nation."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
Anne Meara left a deep impression on all she came into contact with.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:35PM[SHARE]Jamie Kirsch describes Les Noces as "a non-stop, energetic, tour-de-force ride that lasts 25 minutes without a break and leaves you breathless by the end."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 23, 2015
There is no doubt about the creativity in this mix of short films. But are they all suitable fare for eight-year-olds?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54PM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2015
Though they took enough acid to qualify as a psychedelic band, the Blues Magoos always had a foot in the garage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
Courtney Barnett is a scrappy rocker with a hot band, a convincing stage presence, and a bunch of first-class songs. .
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2015
I Refuse is one of those novels that only truly comes clear on a second reading, when certain initially apparently innocuous, easily passed-over sentences reverberate with revealed meaning.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:14AM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
Contemporary dance has no useful definition; maybe we could think of it as an attitude, a constantly changing venture.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:43PM[SHARE]How much longer can these seventy-somethings climb those stairs?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 17, 2015
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:30AM[SHARE]Two 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2015
The collaboration with the mortally ill Ed Pincus, Lucia Small explains, came about from a mutual desire to experiment with documentary form.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:05AM[SHARE]It's not by accident that some of the greatest coming-of-age stories are concerned with deconstructing social stereotypes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2015
With this one project, Boston has gone from a public art also-ran community to a serious cultural player.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Chris Burden's distinctive contribution to the art of our time was that he brought politically informed performance art and idea-based sculpture into the mainstream.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:01AM[SHARE]Waxahatchee exuded poise and presence, while delivering lonesome-cowboy epiphanies that speak to their generation's collective existential shrug.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:10AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2015
Axel Krygier wisely treats the album's framing concept as lightly as possible, turning Monsieur Bigfoot into a sort of Everyhominid who offers existential-woe comments on a variety of subjec…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2015
The 18th Annual Jewish Film Festival approaches its end with two compelling cinematic looks at Jewish history.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:24PM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2015
À la Vie, screening as part of the 18th Annual Jewish Film Festival, is easily the best film I have seen so far this year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:09PM[SHARE]A cursory scan of audience reviews on the Ticketmaster website suggests that Rundgren's current tour was disappointing his fans on a scale probably not seen in rock music since Bob Dylan wen…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2015
Not everybody loves the documentary Last Days in Vietnam. Director Rory Kennedy responds to some of the criticism. By Peter Keough I first saw Rory Kennedy at the 1999 Newport Film Festival …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
I wondered why the Elders Ensemble program so consistently portrayed the elders as somber and withdrawn.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:39PM[SHARE]Both of these entries in Jewishfilm 2015 have their entertaining moments, but the movies ultimately fail to deliver.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Peter Gizzi is a master at allowing his poetic language to summon its own range of meanings, rather than blatantly declaring them to the reader.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:16AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2015
MOMIX proffers something for everyone: acrobatics, dance, theatre, and delightful visual deception.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2015
The three choreographers used the streams of sound as an opportunity to provide floods of movement challenges to the terrific dancers of the company.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2015
Slow West bursts with visual interest, but doesn't seem to be able to settle on what story it wants to tell.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:20AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2015
Back To Fort Scott, a compact, affecting exhibition of meticulously printed black and white photographs, is like a grainy, retro speed bump between the museum's adjacent galleries.
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